Intrepid entrepreneurs have opened restaurants that serve as community hubs, urban farms that supply local kitchens, and coworking spaces that cater to the Steel City's nascent start-up scene. read more

The Rust Belt, an entire region whose very name speaks of decline and decay, is now determinedly—and definitively—finding its way forward. In fact, while the rest of America has staggered under the weight of the Great Recession, the innovators, entrepreneurs, thinkers, and doers in cities like Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Buffalo, and Youngstown have raced out ahead. read more